Ed
Liebrecht
Conductor · Assistant Conductor, Sinfonia of London
© Photograph, Het Muziek / Salukat
Conductor · Assistant Conductor, Sinfonia of London
Ed Liebrecht is a British conductor based in Amsterdam and London. He is currently Assistant Conductor of Sinfonia of London, where he works closely with John Wilson on all aspects of planning, rehearsals and concerts. Alongside his work with SoL, he has an active career as a guest conductor, arranger, editor and pianist, with a particular commitment to new music and projects that bring together musicians from different traditions and genres.
As a guest conductor he has worked extensively with Jameszoo, conducting Het Muziek and Gamelan Salukat in a project recorded for Brainfeeder — for which he also made the arrangements — and Asko|Schönberg in a separate collaboration, released on the same label. Other recent engagements include Luminiscence Utrecht, OPERA2DAY, Opera North, SoundWave Collective and Ludwig with Vincent van Amsterdam, as well as conducting and assistantships with the Noord Nederlands Orkest, Residentie Orkest, Belgian National Orchestra, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra.
As an arranger, his work spans concert programmes, theatre and cross-genre projects. Recent commissions include arrangements for Jameszoo and Het Muziek, for soprano Ana-Carmen Balestra, winner of the Grachtenfestivalprijs 2026, and for SoundWave Collective, with whom he has arranged works ranging from Haydn and Mozart to Gershwin.
Ed is co-founder and co-director of Philharmonic Editions, a publisher of new critical and performing editions of orchestral repertoire, prepared from primary sources and available for sale and hire. His editions of Rachmaninoff's First Symphony and Ravel's Une barque sur l'océan have been recorded by Sinfonia of London and John Wilson for Chandos, and his edition of Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto has been performed by them with Alexandre Kantorow. Recent editions also include Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht. The first catalogue launches in 2027.
He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge, the Royal Academy of Music, the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (National Master's in Orchestral Conducting).
